Johnny Damon CF
Derek Jeter DH
Jason Giambi 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Melky Cabrera LF
Kevin Thompson RF
Miguel Cairo SS

They do this with Trot Nixon all the time. Just say you're sitting him against the lefty. No need to claim an injury. Everyone knows why he's not in the lineup.

Though God I hope Moose isn't regressing...

BTW: Any one else catch the Beasties (I think In sound from way out) and Cypress Hill in the intros? At least Fox is better for MLB than NBC for NBA.

The fuck?

In light of the Posasa/Stinett and Missing OF'ers/57 HRs situations, does anyway think these guys would be useful now?

4 K's for Moose.

Damon .424
Jeter .357
Giambi .250
Arod .136
Cano .455
Posada .250
Bernie .250
Melky .194
Cairo .194
Phillips .385
Stinnett .125

Houston vs. Atlanta!

Both these runs are absolutely 100 percent Cano's fault.

What's really hurt us is Jeter's injury. Not only was he hitting well, with him DHing, it's hard to get Andy's red-hot bat into the lineup.

Get Fox to buy an affiliate in your area then. Then they don't have a choice about showing a game.

Have to, no other choice, right? I'd rather never see Arod at SS, just don't want to see it as ever being a possibility.

Easy there.

Giambi walks!! ARod HRs ball game tied... hopes me

but they were in it last nite n hv gotten good chances today,

as frustrating as it is.. it wud hurt more if we were getting our rears handed to us..

Costing us the season. Are we second in the Majors in errors yet?

Hopefully they tie it up and we'll see A-Rod at SS.

Of course, the A's seem to make their living doing that to their opponents, but it's still aggravating.

Well, no pitching, no bullpen, and a Sheff-Mats-less offense, you certainly could say that.

And what's going on with Boston today? Sounds like at least part of their makeup doubleheader has been rained out.

Wilson aint worth giving anyone up for!

I hope the FO doesn't panic. IMO, the current slump is temporary. A-Rod and Giambi were sick, and still not fully recovered. (Especially A-Rod.) Jeter is walking wounded, but should recover soon. Cairo isn't going to be in the lineup regularly.

Yes, he strikes out a lot. But he has more power than our current OFers, and more Ks generally go with that.

Perhaps most useful is that Wilson can play 1B and catcher as well as all three OF positions. No more Nick Green!

Dunno if he'd be willing to come to NY, where he might be a backup again. (His beef with Pittsburgh is that he doesn't want to be a backup.) But if he is, he could be useful.

our focus is starting pitchers..

I'm afraid, until we build up our farm and have enough quality youth that we can have both trading chips and 'keepers', that 'overpriced' fee-agents will be what we can get.

Improving our pitching is priority one... but it has been for the last 3 years, and look what we have gotten. It's hard to know with pitchers Javy, RJ, Pavano). At least with some offensive guys, they are proven and consistant. You know what you're getting.

We can't replace Mats/Shef with Melky/Bubba. Thats silly. If we want to win THIS year, we need to get some offense, and (of course) pitching.... IF its to be had.

I know inter-divisional trades are taboo, but how about Duncan for Benson?

I dunno...we've tried to win the World Series with a bunch of DH-type players. It hasn't worked. Maybe we should give pitching, speed, and defense a try. We may not be able to improve our pitching a lot, but it's not terrible right now. According to ESPN, the Yankees have the second lowest team ERA in the AL.

Maybe if it was KT or Bubba in RF yesterday, we win that game. Bernie almost missed that catch, and his throw home was terrible. One run was the difference in the game.

On the bright side, Boston just lost to Texas, so we didn't lose any more ground.

I wonder if Thompson will still be sent down? How has he looked in right field so far to those who have seen him?

Peter Abraham reported tonight that Cashman told him Bubba would be rejoining the team Tuesday "at the earliest," so KT may get some more chances to prove his worth.

I'd rather keep Thompson than Nick Green, that's for sure. Maybe that's why they are delaying Bubba's return to Tuesday. Jeter is supposed to be back at SS Tuesday.

BTW, check out Abraham's post about Matsui. It's pretty neat.

No freakin' trades for offensive players. We have everything we need.

Damon
Jeter
Giambi
A-Rod
Posada
Cano
Phillips
Melky
Thompson (Bernie, Bubba, Durazo, Pena)

The top 6 guys on that lineup run-down are more than enough to win ballgames. No need to give up guys to rent veterans at the expense of our successful youth movement.

If we make any trades, they should be for pitching and that doesn't need to happen until later in the year when a few teams have dropped out of their respective races and are more willing to part with a top line pitcher. Be patient.

Agreed! Done and done!

Are these posters crazy, loony, off their medication? Trade for offense? What? Who? Where? Am I dreaming?

We have plenty, we are tops in the AL for God's sake.

We do not need to give up anything for more offense, especially Jones/Wilson type offense. Hell, if Bonds wants to DH, then maybe, but that's the only guy I'd be willing to grab for a run.

Did I sleepwalk through 2005? We could not have been more stacked on offense, and where did it get us? Our lame ass below average overpriced pitching staff tanked, and we lost.

Pitching pitching pitching. Defense defense defense. We need to stop making so many errors and hope our youngsters prove they can pitch. That is the only solution.

Sure I was all for the Johnson deal, now I look like a fool. We would have Vasquez, Navarro and Halsey, yea that Halsey kid that looked pretty good against us today. If Zito is available, well maybe, but we may just have to grin and bear it this year.

We could have a staff with Vasquez and Mussina, and Contreras right now. That sounds better than Johnson, Wright, no? Hindsight is 20/20 but we sure did make some foolish trades by that standard. Johnson just tanked, what can you do. But we need pitchng and a team to bear down on defense, that's the answer. 3 more Sheffield's isn't the answer. You cant bomb your way through playoff pitching, you just can't. No trades for some clown like C. Wilson, please.

You're right, but taint' no way Joe/Cash/Stein are sending RJ to the pen. Even if every ounce of their beings tells them it's the right thing to do.

Randy Johnson is either going to work out his issues going out there every 5 days, or he's not. He's too old to go to the bullpen to figure anything out. It's far more likely that you'd see him come up with some minor injury that put him on the 15 day DL and work out in Tampa.

The Little Unit is going to get his act together or we will suffer through frustrating defeats every week until his contract expires and he hangs it up. Get used to it.

But they will ceom through soon.

Stormer -

They've got to be looking for a starter right now; it's absolutely mandatory, seeing as how half our current starters find it virtually impossible to get out of the 6th inning. We don't need a stud (actually, we DO need a stud, though we're not going to get one until the offseason); we just need an innings sponge who can go seven while giving up four. Any ideas?

And no, R.J.'s not going to "come around." I too was a big fan of the Johnson trade and also feel like a complete tool for believing so at the time.

Also, the Bo Sox have done about the same as the Yankees in this catagory, whlie the Blue Jays are one of the league's worse.

Plus they have Pavano on his way back (god forbid) and with the Yankees, at least MOST arms in the pen are usable... which isn't exactly the case for just about everyone else. (Yankees are 4th in reliever ERA, only the Twins are noticablly better, the Tigers and the Red Sox are marginally better... and we all know the Red Sox's reliever ERA is mostly low because of 1 guy.)

If they can get a starter cheap, they will go for it. but it's not too likely.

Agree that offense isn't what we need most. Mark Gallagher points out that the Yanks are back on track to score almost 1,000 runs. If they continue as they have so far, they'll end up with more runs than the 1998 Yankees.

The problem is that they aren't doing as good job of preventing opponents' runs. Better pitching is always good, but the pitching really isn't that bad - Randy Johnson and all. They have the second best ERA in the AL, which ain't too shabby.

What's killing us is defense. Or lack thereof. We've made twice the number of errors as AL-leading Boston (42 vs. 21). Never mind the various adventures (like Bernie's in RF) that aren't scored errors.

I think the Yanks were too one-dimensional last year. Too many old, slow, DH-type players. The acclaimed 1998 Yankees didn't have even one 30 HR hitter. Our missing piece just might be defense, not another slugger.

That and Cairo's many forced adventures around the field.... which has been unfortunately neccessities.

a infield of A-rod , Jeter , Cano , Phillips and a OF of Melky, Damon , Bubba or Thompson isn't the best out there, but it should be close enough to the middle of the pack to suffice. All in all, the Yankees desperately need everyone left in the lineup back healthy again to bring some stability.

It'll probably mean Smith going back to Columbus, but I'm hoping it will be Erickson.

Johnny Damon 2B
Derek Jeter DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Bernie Williams RF
Robinson Canó 2B
Andy Phillips 1B
Melky Cabrera LF
Miguel Cairo SS

I was kind of hoping KT would get the start in RF, but with Jason out, I figured Torre would go with the veteran.

Now, we just need to get Rasner to replace Small when he is eligable.

They want to "see more of Matt Smith. Smith opened some eyes when he got successive outs from David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez."

So maybe they'll use him now in some important situations instead of only mop up situations?

Oh, hell yes!

Note that you'll likely have to do hit those show/hide buttons. But for example JeremyM says it at 229 of the Draft Horses thread.

Seriously, I'm not convinced Sori can perform in the post season, where the pitching tends to be very, very good.

That was a nice catch by Melky. Yesterday he was looking kind of tentative.

Just realized Thomas is out of the lineup. Did they do that to even the playing field since Giambi is out? Thank God because Thomas has been mashing.

That, and Bernie's numbers against lefties are decent.

Figure Small is next to go if he doesn't turn it around, then?:

1. Rasner
2. Mendoza
3. Dotel
4. Beam

Yanks: 14GS 2W 7L 4.64 ERA
Sux: 10GS 3W 4L 4.60 ERA

YS: 7GS 1W 4L 4.26 ERA
Fenway: 4GS 1W 2L 4.85 ERA

If anything, he's the classic middle of the rotation guy - cleans up against bad teams and struggles against good teams.

I suppose my final feelings will depend on the $$$ figures - but he's definitely not worth the prospects in a trade.

he just reminds us the run we had before the 3 game doozer..

i would say be patient.. no trade for any OFers

if its a trade make one or 2 for rotation .. typical 4 or 5 guys..

I think what we need is already in the system. Unless people are hellbent on a starter, and even then, I'm not opposed to Steven White or Darrell Rasner getting some starts at some point this season.

I might be the only one, but I am perfectly happy standing pat this trade deadline...unless it is a seemingly minor trade ala Chacon last season.

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What the hell was that?!

Inside park HR??

can someone describe it

Why do you find Nadal hard to root for? After the match he called Federer "the best player in history."

It was in no-man's-land. Damon would have had it if Melky hadn't run into him.

Melky got spoken to. Told to beware of speeding CFers, no doubt.

Hopefully, no one was hurt. Melky barreled right into Damon, basically punching him in the head with his outstretched glove. Damon jumped right up and went chasing after the ball, threw it in, then stopped to reassure young Melky.

They both look okay, but sometimes it's the next morning before they realize something's wrong. Damon already has a bad foot, bad shoulder, and bad elbow.

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There's just something about Nadal's mannerisms that I don't like. Taking an excessive amount of time between points doesn't help, but I think it's mostly his superstitions, i.e., the water bottles and the socks, and the awful capri pants. I can't stand Sergio Garcia for similar reasons. With that said, his comments after the match were very classy.

Thank you Cap for coming back early from injury, putting up an 0 for 10, and leaving who knows how many men on base.

And if Johnny had a better arm, that would have been a DP.

Thank you for batting Coco Crisp (4 bb, 80 abs) leadoff and dropping Kevin Youkilis (42 bbs, 214 abs) way down in the line-up.

Sincerely,

All Yankee fans.

Is that Mcha or Beane or both?

Sorry about that 0 for 10 crack above. I was only trying to motivate you.

All the best.

You pal,

YFinC

What pitcher can we get?
Who do we have to trade with?
Erikson, Small and TLong?

Sori is a free agent next year. He is gettable. Zito also... but there will be a LONG line for him.

What I REALLY want is to improve our team.
I want Sori ONLY because I think we can get him without giving up too much young talent.

So those of you who think we should getting pitching and that we don't need offense (so we lose 50 HRs)...

Propose a deal that THE OTHER team will do. Tell me who we can get... that is worth getting, and who we will lose. I'm NOT an expert... but I'd don't see anybody giving us talent at a reasonable cost.

Tell me. I'm open.

2006? 11 errors already.

280 I think we can make a deal for someone like Craig Wilson, for more cash than talent.

If not, I'm willing to stand pat with what we have. Like I said, I think what we really need is defense. Bubba instead of Bernie will be an upgrade. Dotel will be joining the team in three weeks. Long and Erickson are gone - hallelujah!

And surely our luck with injuries and such will change. This can't go on the whole season...can it?

CBS gamecenter has the last 7 pitches by Franswacker and Smith all on the edge of the zone and all called balls.

A-Rod was booed as soon as he hit the ball. Before it was even caught, the crowd was booing.

d'oh.

He didn't leave the game yesterday, but is out of the lineup today. Reportedly, Torre told him that he was staying in no matter how badly he was hurt because he wanted to pinch-hit Andy Phillips in the 9th.

I thought Cabrera was going to catch that ball.

What I wouldn't give to have A-Rod hit a walk off grand slam today.

Make this weekend end please.

Meanwhile, guess who is second in the NL in saves. We should have just given flash however much money he wanted to stay in NY.

Ya think?

Street is up in the A's pen. This will be his fourth straight game, and fifth in the last sixth days. If you want something to hope for, he might be a little tired.

Seems to be okay, but jeez...

At least it was Jeter instead of A-Rod making the final out. I don't think I could take all the A-Rod bashing that would result if Jeter made it on base and A-Rod struck out. :-P

Keith Foulke has turned into Scott Erickson.

Really makes you appreciate the longevity of Mariano Rivera.

We're now one game back.

357 Yep. More innings from our starters would be great, too. They're averaging a little over 5 innings pitched in 10 games since June 1st. Thank God for Moose.